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As suggested in the mailing lists here is a list of other PIM Software. I suggest to define the word loosely and to include email-clients too.

I further suggest to collect for each product the most inspiring features, be they good or bad.

    • Would there be any value to a review of SecondPassProducts to determine if there is a pattern to what is selected for "improvement"?

Of course this all is subjective but that doesn't hurt. I have no suggestion for the internal structure for each item at the moment.

Related Products (in alphabetical order):

-- NorbertKlamann - 14 Jan 2003
-- SocinianClarke - 14 Jan 2003
-- DuckySherwood - 25 Jan 2003

1/15/03

I have not seen any mention of InforCentral7?, originally a WordPerfect? product. It got lost in the many subsequent owners of WordPerfect?. This program is a real PIM which allows scheduling, software program launching to create files connected to objects created in the database part of the program. Categories such as people, organizations, appointments, telephone calls and any other desired by the user can have fields defined and set up by the user. These objects can be connected to each other by user defined descriptions. If there is a problem with the program it is that it is too flexible and can become a little to complicated. I am an architect and I have my whole person and professional life organized in this program. It is an orphan and although well thought out from the beginning there are shortcomings that grow as time goes by - no Palm hot synching.

Corel still has a newsgroup devoted to this program: corel.wpoffice.corelcentral-old_version

It is available (somewhere) at least from one of the people posting on that news group.

Sincerely, Stephen Levine sslevine@juno.com

1/17/03

Despite several emacs/xemacs packages are mentioned, these are mostly for reading mail, but there is another wonderful package for Emacs/Xemacs called Hyperbole, which is exactly a PIM.

Hyperbole provides facilities for managing mail, files, and every other information. It is hyperlinks based. The main idea is that the user inserts hyperlinks into any text file. Hyperlinks may perform various actions like link to another file, link to a specific location into another file, execute any shell/Lisp commands, etc.

I use Hyperbolee to organize bookmarks. I have 700+ M of various computer documentation organized in this way.

It would be nice if Chandler could provide similar features in its Documentation package.

-Serge serge.boiko@gmx.net

01/18/2002

What about Lotus Organizer? It has very nice iCal and vcard support and a fun metaphor. -Jake jochs@nyc.rr.com

1/24/03 Zoot; www.zootsoftware.com; yahoo groups on zoot SusanKPeekna - 24 Jan 2003
25 Jan 2003 I added a bunch of PIMs to the list; generally the links go straight to external pages on the product. If you'd like to put a page up on your favorite PIM, please do! Please remember to put a link (or links) to external resources for that PIM.

DuckySherwood

Aaron has an kind of amusing take on a number of different PIMs.

-- DuckySherwood - 27 Jan 2003

I wonder if it would be useful to keep a lookout for what organizers are being sold to the business world:

-- JonathanSmith - 31 Jan 2003

2003/2/1 Opera's latest M2 E-mail Client seems to have a very similar architecture to Chandler.
  • E-mail database, news reader, and mailing list organizer
  • "Access points" == Views
  • "Labels" == Jungle.Attributes
  • Spam filtering, "sticky" searches (becomes Access Points)
-- NilsR Grotnes
2003/2/1

Jungle.Google lists Jungle.Wikis under Groupware along with:

For a more complete Groupware listing, see GrantBowman's Collaborative Groupware Software web page.

-- JonathanSmith - 01 Feb 2003

Thanks Jonathan, your fee is in the mail. smile

I've put alot of work into that page in the past. I wish I had more time to keep it up to date. There are also better wiki collections. However even as a dated reference I use it for my own purposes and I'm glad that others find it useful as well.

I started to transform it into a set of TWiki topics. Peter Thoeny helped me with some of the issues as discussed there. A static page is so ironicly bad for a groupware collection. Unfortunately I don't have a good host for my grantbow.com site yet. Maybe we could do some interesting things with that structure for this set of links as well. The goal of my groupware page and this page are the same even if the scopes are different: collect information about software packages. Let me know what you think.

-- GrantBowman - 09 Apr 2004

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